DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bed not turned into fabric (6)

4 Raced around fool when troubled (8)

10 Made Arab bet in Jewish office (9)

11 Subject to constant cold (5)

12 Absence of approval for recess (4)

13 Second-rate dirge made space for wedding partner (10)

15 Bother band to be showing devotion (7) 16 Unusually astute artistic work (6)

19 Meal for secretary during work break (6)

21 Recoils from limits of dosage trials (7)

25 Deer country doldrums (10)

26 Jump split function of martial arts (4)

28 Passage I will mention in speech (5)

29 Both alter marriage promise (9)

30 Changed its speed to find a way round (8)

31 Drop off pet and return pot (6)

DOWN

1 Healing may incur trouble before middle age (6)

2 A bit old to make the paper (7)

3 Noticeable part of the ear (4)

5 Date and fix schedule (6) 6 Got leather renewed on the whole (10)

7 Hold up and drink wine (7) 8 Took off legal title to shelter tents (8)

9 Justify fighting talk, when wild (7)

14 Television hosts go into the media (10)

17 Infringe upon very French defile (8)

18 Rests or works in stamping grounds (7)

20 Paid tribute to combatting despair (7) 22 Tongue-lashing kerbed hothead’s temper (7) 23 Fixed farm building (6) 24 Bound to have lines in the circuit (6)

27 Exercises likely to bring nirvana in the end (4)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Fortified building (6) 4 Stalemate (8)

10 Set of steps (9)

11 Rate of movement (5) 12 Den (4)

13 Vague, imprecise (10) 15 Provider of food for a party (7)

16 Annoy, grate (6) 19 Stimulate, energise (6) 21 Earth science (7) 25 Elation (10)

26 Russian monarch (4) 28 Creature in Scandinavian folklore (5)

29 Complicated state of affairs (9)

30 Organised (8)

31 Give the impression (6)

DOWN

1 Expensive (6)

2 Staying power (7)

3 Animal fat (4)

5 Cricket team (6) 6 Contemptible (10) 7 Egyptian pillar (7)

8 Dish of rice, fish and eggs (8)

9 Wash clothes (7) 14 Athletic contest of seven events (10)

17 Alzheimer’s disease (8) 18 Stronghold, bastion (7) 20 Outcry (7)

22 Small graceful antelope (7)

23 Refuse to work (6) 24 Protective covering (6) 27 Metal band (4)